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The purpose of the Agile Maturity Assessment is to evaluate how well a team is doing in it's adoption of Agile processes. Assessment questions are focused on a variety of Agile principles, practices and frameworks.

With an assessment there are no right or wrong answers to any of the questions. The team's aggregated scores will provide insight into areas of Agile that can be improved upon and, with the help of follow-up surveys, progress can be measured over time.

While we ask for your email address so that we can send you the results of the assessment, your individual assessment responses will be kept anonymous. The output of the assessment will be an aggregated view from both the team-level and the organization-level.

The Agile Maturity Assessment typically takes 10 - 15 minutes to complete and must be completed in one sitting. There are 39 total questions with four possible responses to each question. The four possible responses are designed to determine how often events occur or practices are used. When answering each question, provide the first answer that comes to mind. Typically, initial reactions are your unbiased opinions. Be as honest and accurate as possible.

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Stories that are accepted into the sprint are ready to be worked.

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Non-functional requirements are determined early enough to appropriately influence design and testing.

Formal written documents are used to supplement rather than replace faster, more informal communication.

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Technical team members and the product owner are included in the planning process in a way that they can meaningfully and appropriately affect scope and deadlines.

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At the start of each sprint, the team performs sufficient just-in-time planning to be confident of what it can complete in the sprint.

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Standup meetings are effective at synchronizing work.

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The team decides what work is accepted into the sprint backlog.

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The team has consistent sprint durations.

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The team has a sprint planning session at the beginning of every sprint.

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The team has an effective sprint review meeting at the end of every sprint where the product owner reviews the completed work increment.

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All testing is completed inside of the sprint.

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The product owner renegotiates sprint priorities and commitment when the team communicates team discoveries that impact size or value of work.

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The Scrum Master streamlines and optimizes processes and procedures that impact the team.

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The Scrum Master effectively facilitates ceremonies by asking powerful questions that lead to team insights, helping the team make decisions and reach consensus, addressing difficult attitudes or non-optimal behaviors, and encouraging healthy conflict.

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Impediments are viewed as urgent and are tracked and resolved immediately.

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The Scrum Master ensures artifacts, such as Kanban boards and burndown charts, are updated and visible for anyone to view.

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Team embraces change. They have a basic understanding of how they can deal with it as a team. Processes are defined that allow acceptance of change.

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The team makes and upholds the commitment to completing the items in the sprint backlog.

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In regards to self-organization, the team works together to create a plan to meet their goals. They self-organize. Rather than ask for permission, they inform others of their intended actions.

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The team is empowered to make local decisions (decisions close to the team).

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Leaders and people managers allow for failure, encouraging teams to fail fast, learn fast, and improve.

The team assigns a time box to each spike and ensures that spikes stay within the time box. The team does only enough to answer outstanding questions.

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Automated tests are integrated with the build system. When the build fails, code/tests are fixed immediately.

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Team quality processes and practices are completely encoded into our tools, behavior, and working environment. Quality is measured and tracked.

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The team has a well defined and well known conflict resolution process.

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The team communicates face-to-face the majority of the time (excluding remote teammates).

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Team members are kept together on the same team as long as possible.

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Everyone required to go from requirements to finished system is on the team.

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The team has between three and nine members (not including Scrum Master or Product Owner).

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You have reached the end of the Scrum Assessment. If you would like to revisit your answers, click on the previous button. If you are happy with your answers, click the submit button for your responses to be included in your team's results. Your individual responses will be sent to the email you provided.

As Agilists, we are continuously looking to improve. Any feedback you provide will be greatly appreciated.